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CRUISES 
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The Cruising Yacht " Athena 



Greece presents to the ordinary traveler ob- 
stacles sufficient to deter all but the most coura- 
geous — poor roads, inadequate railway service, 
primitive conveyances, and unspeakable sleep- 
ing accommodations in hotels and local steam- 
ers. On the other hand, it offers facilities to be 
found nowhere else in the world for cruising with 
moderate-sized steamers. The entire JEgean 
is surrounded with promontories and dotted 
with islands offering convenient shelter, while 
it reaches out its long tentacle-like inlets or 
fjords deep into the heart of the land, touching 
almost every point of interest. Here the small 
steamer — not the ocean liner whose size bars 
it from all but the widest open doors — bears a 
charmed life, affording transportation and ac- 
commodation alike where both are otherwise 
denied. 

The Athena is but the culmination of a long 
evolution. A series of chartered steamers, all of 
them compromises between local conditions and 
our own ideals, have led the way to our present 
more serious undertaking. The yacht was built 
in a British shipyard for a gentleman of wealth, 




A Restful Summer Afternoon 



whose purpose was to cruise in distant seas, and, 
though no larger than many a private yacht, 
it is of most extraordinary construction. Built 
to stand the rudest tests, she has met every ex- 
pectation. She has repeatedly crossed the At- 
lantic in the stormiest winter months, and has 
once made an Arctic voyage, returning from all 
without scratch or strain. Her machinery is 
so perfectly adjusted that no tremor betrays 
whether she is in motion or not. She is some- 
what broader of beam than most yachts of her 
size, with corresponding advantage in accommo- 
dations and steadiness. 

While the yacht as purchased disclosed no de- 
fect to expert inspectors, she required complete 
rebuilding as regards accommodations and in- 
ternal arrangements to meet our requirements. 
This was accomplished by an expenditure of 
over $50,000 in addition to the purchase price. 
The changes include new cabins and toilets 
throughout, a refrigerating plant, additional 
deck space, together with furnishings and fittings 
of every description. All changes were carried 
out under the superintendence of Lloyd's in- 
spectors, the highest authority in naval construc- 
tion, and have secured for the Athena a place 
in the highest recognized class in Lloyd's Reg- 
istry of Shipping. Further extensive changes 




The Sleeping Deck : Curtained Alcoves open to the Sea 



were made as the result of our first season's ex- 
perience, and each season witnesses new additions 
to our comfort and convenience. (See plan, 
page 32.) 

The Main Deck. The Athena^ has three 
decks for the accommodation of passengers. 
The lowest or main deck is completely enclosed 
and divided into two parts by a solid bulkhead. 
The larger of these is devoted to the women, al- 
ways in the majority in these cruises, and the 
smaller to the men. They are divided into nu- 
merous staterooms, each fitted with running 
water and electric light. This deck is regularly 
used only for toilet purposes, the sleeping accom- 
modations being on the open deck above. The 
stifling air of confined ship's quarters, elsewhere 
a necessity, is here avoided, thus removing the 
one serious objection to cruising in summer seas. 

The Middle Deck. This deck is roofed in 
by the upper deck, and closed fore and aft by steel 
bulkheads, with no openings save portholes. 
The sides are protected by a water-tight bulwark 
and teak rail about three and one-half feet high. 
Above this, all is open. 

This space, however, may be closed wholly or 
in part by a tightly laced canvas capable of 
standing any sea. In an emergency, therefore, 
this too becomes a completely enclosed deck, but 




The Dining Room 

in good weather it can be made as open as de- 
sired. This is our sleeping deck. Solid standards 
of steel are set up between the middle and upper 
decks, and in these the berths are firmly secured 
in alcoves resembling staterooms. Canvas and 
curtains complete the arrangements for privacy 
without excluding the all-important air, for the 
sake of which we abandoned the too confined 
deck below. This arrangement has met the 
severest tests, and never once have passengers 
been obliged to abandon their berths or suffered 
danger or discomfort by remaining. Toilet and 
bathrooms are conveniently situated on this 
deck. A broad middle space, carpeted and 
furnished, serves as cabin or meeting room in 
cooler weather. 

The Upper Deck. This is identical in size 
with the middle deck and is the chief scene of 
social life. At the after end is located the gallery 
or serving pantry, and adjacent are set our tables, 
while the forward portion of the deck, equipped 
with willow cushioned chairs and settees, is re= 
served for lounging and conversation. A broad 
double awning covers the whole. The yacht 
has an ample outfit of life boats, life preservers, 
life rafts, and all necessary devices for safety 
and convenience. A magnificent naphtha launch 
completes the outfit. While the thoughtful 



"The Splendor falls on Castle Walls" 

traveler will realize that neither these nor any 
other provisions can guarantee comfort under 
all conditions, it is difficult to exaggerate the 
charm of life on board such a yacht when skies 
are serene and winds are fair, with the ineffable 
blue of the Mediterranean about us and the 
storied shores of Greece on either hand. And 
though these conditions are not assured, they 
are the rule, unkindly experiences being the 
rare exception. Our aim is to make life on 
board the yacht simple and unconventional. 
The table is plain but abundant and wholesome. 
The cruise may be described as a camping 
party at sea. 

The Shrine of the World 

The most interesting part of the world lies 
about the shores of the yEgean. Its scenery, 
though less overpowering in sheer immensity than 
the fjords of Norway or the high Sierras, is 
shrouded in a mystery and transfigured with a 
color and light to which northern lands are a 
stranger. No coast is more diversified and pic- 
turesque; no waters and skies are so blue. It 
may be that the infinite poetry of Greece lends 
to her mountains and seas a charm not their 
own; but it is, after all, their own, for they 








The Erechtheion, Athens 

nursed the imagination of Greece and created her 
poetry. 

The history of Greece is not less unique. 
Greek achievements in arms and in civic life, 
when stripped of all their doubtful glamor, still 
border on the superhuman. Nor were they idle 
displays of valor, but heroic deeds in defense of 
the civilization of which we are a part. As 
Greece to the sympathetic eye is the stepping 
stone twixt reality and dreamland, so Greek 
history is the borderland between history and 
romance. Every bay and headland, every moun- 
tain and valley, has its memories of men who 
were heroes and held converse with gods. 

Better yet, but farther from our western 
thought, is the Greek legacy of culture. Venice 
has given us painting, Germany music, England 
has her gardens, France her cathedrals; each 
people makes its one-sided contribution to the 
many-faceted gem of art. Which art did not 
Greece make hers? Have we any temples like 
the Parthenon; any trio of dramatists like (Es- 
chylus, Sophocles, and Euripides; any voice for 
our poetized historic consciousness like Homer? 
Which of our philosophers surpasses Plato? 
What orator rivals Pericles? Was not Apelles 
their Raphael? And whom shall we set over 
against Praxiteles and Scopas and Lysippus, not 




The "Walls of Tiryns 

to mention Phidias, the name that is above every 
name? Elsewhere art grows up one-sided and 
askew; in Greece it grew up symmetrical and 
complete. Elsewhere culture grows old and rot- 
ten; in Greece alone it grew ripe. 

And all this is in the line of our own spiritual 
ancestry. The civilization of Egypt was a mem- 
orable one, but it has made no connection with 
our own. We dig it up as a thing strange and 
dead. The civilization of Greece has never 
died. It is more as patriots than as cosmopoli- 
tans that we turn our faces toward this birth- 
place of our ideals. 

The glories of Greece, however, are not the 
only attraction of the cruise. Recent discoveries 
in Crete have electrified the world as nothing has 
done since Schliemann telegraphed to the king of 
Greece that he had found the grave of Agamem- 
non. Knossos is second in interest only to 
Athens. Sicily, visited in all its extent for the 
first time in 1909, is a second and greater Greece. 
Constantinople still remains the city without a 
parallel, and Dalmatia, chief among these all for 
scenic grandeur, reveals a surprising wealth of 
ancient monuments. This addition to the trav- 
eler's practical domain can never again be du- 
plicated, for the world contains no other area of 
equal interest for enterprise and energy to 
unlock. 

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Corfu; a Glimpse of the Citadel 

The midsummer cruises are this year extended 
to the mission stations of the Levant, live centers 
where the regenerative influences at work in 
modern Turkey are peculiarly manifest. 



A Typical Cruise 

The movements of the Athena are given in 
the outline of the several cruises on pages 26 to 
30. These include eight trips to Greece, six 
to Constantinople, three to Crete, one to Dal- 
matia, and three to Sicily. The traveler, there- 
fore, finds it possible to visit Greece during every 
month of the spring and summer from April to 
August, while the other countries mentioned are 
visited at frequent intervals. The following de- 
scription covers all points visited by the 
Athena, the program in the several places 
being essentially the same for all cruises. We 
especially recommend this early summer cruise 
to all who can sail at the date required. Weather 
and all other conditions are at their best, the 
itinerary is the fullest, and the leadership the 
strongest that we can furnish. The cruise 
makes connection with tours in Italy and the 



fete** i&Jk 

Ragusa, Dalmatia 

north, both preceding and following. The 
Spring Cruise (5) is a close second as regards 
weather and itinerary. Atlantic steamer con- 
nections are indicated in the calendar of the 
tours. 

Thursday, May 18. The yacht touches 
at Brindisi for the benefit of those who join via 
Naples, — Pompeii, Capri, Amalfi, Ravello, and 
Paestum having been visited before the trip 
to Brindisi. 

From Brindisi the yacht crosses to Cattaro 
on the eastern side of the Adriatic. 



Dalmatia 

Friday, May 19. Cattaro. The ap- 

Saturday, May 20. proach by a long wind- 
ing fjord resembling and surpassing Lake Lucerne 
is one of the grandest in the world. The old 
fortified town itself is most attractive. The 
great lion of Cattaro, however, is the famous 
drive up into Montenegro, the mountain fast- 
ness of one of the hardiest and most indomi- 
table of peoples. The scenery of this splendid 
road has no equal in the civilized world. The 








The Path of the ' Athena " 

drive is continued as far as Njegus, the end of 
the scenic route, with return the same day to 
the Athena. 

Sunday, May 21. Ragusa, one of the best 
preserved and perhaps the most picturesque of 
mediaeval cities. The commerce, which once 
rivaled that of Venice, has not wholly dis- 
appeared. 

Monday, May 22. Spalato, Salona. In 

Tuesday, May 23. this picturesque and 
sheltered retreat the world-weary Diocletian 
built his huge fortress-like palace, whose vast 
extent, enclosing temples, halls, living rooms, 
baths, barracks, offices, etc., as a ruin now 
shelters houses and dwellers of humbler mold. 
Spalato has its cathedral, too, a quaint circular 
one, and a museum with no mean collection of 
the antiquities of this famous locality. 

From Spalato we drive to Salona, a few miles 
distant, an ancient Roman war harbor and arse- 
nal most beautifully situated. 

The voyage is continued as far as possible by 
day on account of the beauty of the mountain- 
ous archipelago, which increases in grandeur as 
we proceed. 

Wednesday, May 24. Abbazia. This Aus- 
trian Newport with its fine grounds and beautiful 
walks deserves a brief visit. The few hours de- 
voted to it will not delay our journey. 




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The Placid Harbor of Candia 

Thursday, May 25. Pola. The most Ro- 
man of all the Adriatic cities. The Roman ruins 
include a Triumphal Arch, a finely preserved 
Temple, and above all a magnificent Amphi- 
theater, excellently preserved and imposing 
in situation. 

Friday, May 26. Ravenna, perhaps the most 
unique city in Italy. In addition to its mosaics, 
the most important in the world, the remarkable 
Tomb of Theodoric is of exceptional interest. 
(See note on page 31.) 

Saturday, May 27. Venice. A brief stop 
is made on behalf of those who began the cruise 
earlier, and, having already visited Sicily and 
Greece, finish their cruise with Dalmatia. It is 
assumed that members of the cruise have visited 
or will visit the Queen of the Adriatic at some 
other time. 

Sunday, May 28, we are steaming down the 
Italian coast. 

Monday, May 29. We again stop briefly 
at Brindisi to release or receive members of the 
cruise. Then on, along the coast. 

Tuesday, May 30. We are still coasting 
southward, this time along Calabria, rounding 
the heel of the boot, and following toward the 
toe. The day is full of suggestion, however, 
passing Tarentum and Sybaris and Croton and 

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A Popular Occupation on the "Athena" 

Metapontum, with memories of great Greeks 
and greater Greece. 

SICILY 

Wednesday, May 31. Taormina. Our 

Sicilian cruise begins with the grandest of all 
outlooks, the view from the rock-hewn Theater 
of Taormina, justly famed as the finest in the 
world. Then on through the Straits of Messina, 
past Scylla and Charybdis. (See note on page 

3i.) 

June 1. Cefalu, a place seldom visited be- 
cause unprovided with hotels, but the possessor 
of perhaps the finest mosaics in the world. The 
visit here, as in so many other cases, is made 
easy by the Athena. 

June 2-4. Palermo. The splendid Sicilian' 
metropolis rivals Naples in beauty of situation, 
and far surpasses it in the interest of its historic 
monuments representing the blended Saracenic- 
Norman civilization. 

June 5. Segesta. The impressive excursion 
to this city which lured Athens into the fateful 
Syracusan campaign is facilitated by the Athena, 
which now heads toward Africa. 

June 6-8. Tunis. The growing interest in 
Africa and the Orient warrants this visit to one 
of the most significant of historic sites. In addi- 

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Girgenti: Temple of Juno 

tion to the interest always felt in the native life, 
the stay finds its climax in a visit to the extensive 
ruins of Carthage near the modern city. 

Note. In our earlier visit to Tunis (Cruise) 
advantage is taken of the favorable spring season 
to visit Biskra, so famous in recent travel plans, 
Timgad with its imposing ruins, and Constan- 
tine the picturesque ancient capital. 

June 9. Selinunte. Returning to Sicily, 
our first call is at this mightiest of sanctuaries, 
where men and gods combined to hold the island 
for Hellas against Carthage. The ruined tem- 
ples are the largest ever built by Greeks. (See 
note on page 31.) 

June 10. Girgenti, loftily situated and 
proud of the most perfect of Greek temples in 
Sicily. 

June 11. Malta, a delightful excursion to this 
mightier Gibraltar of the mid-Mediterranean. 

June 12. Syracuse, the Athens of Magna 
Grecia. In addition to visiting the Greek 
Theater, the quarry prisons of the ill-fated 
Athenians, and the Fountain of Arethusa, we 
drive to distant Fort Euryselus from whose lofty 
towers we can trace, in the loveliest landscape 
in Sicily, the moves in that fateful Syracusan 
campaign which cost Athens her empire. 

June 13-14. Taormina. This is the scenic 
climax of travel in Sicily, the double view from 



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Corinth ; a Ruin that St. Paul saw 

the Theater of Taormina being justly famed as 
the finest in the world. The hardier will find 
time to climb to Mola, that seems to look down 
on Taormina from among the stars. 

An extra day is allowed here to meet unex- 
pected exigencies. The party is free to arrive 
a day later or leave a day earlier than here 
scheduled. 

June 15. Crossing to Greece. 

June 16-17. The Peloponnesus. Time may 
possibly permit a stop at " sandy Pylos " and 
Sphacteria, where Sparta suffered her first 
great humiliation. Then we enter the Gulf of 
Messenia for the excursion to the wonderful ruins 
of the ancient city and its great citadel, Mt. 
Ithome. 

From this point there will be an opportunity 
for the hardier to cross the mountains to the 
scanty ruins of Sparta, while the rest content 
themselves with a sail up into the Gulf of Laconia. 

June 18. Knossos. Crossing to Crete, we 
visit the ruins of the Palace of King Minos, the 

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The Agora ; Mycenae 



most wonderful archaeological discovery since 
the days of Schliemann, and then study the re- 
markable civilization of the Minoan Empire in 
the beautiful Museum at Candia, the harbor of 
Knossos. We leave in the afternoon for Greece 
again. (See note on page 31.) 

June 19. Mycenae. The excursion to the 
far-famed capital of Agamemnon, with its Lion 
Gate and its great beehive tombs or " treasure 
houses," is made by special train, supplemented 
by native carts for the ascent of the Acropolis. 
On the return the train stops at " wall-girt 
Tiryns " for a visit to the remains of the Ho- 
meric Palace and the great walls so impressive 
to Homer. 

June 20. Epidauros. From the same moor- 
ing place we take carriages to Epidauros, the 
most famous seat of the healing art in the an- 
cient world. The entire community constituted 
one vast sanitarium, with almost every modern 
device. The site is of great beauty. At evening 
we weigh anchor and sail for the Piraeus. 

June 21-27. Athens. A week spent here 




The Theater at Epidauros 

is none too much for a study of the most signifi- 
cant group of monuments of the ancient world. 
No thoughtful traveler would be content with 
the mere survey which elsewhere suffices. The 
monuments of Athens, representing the taste and 
refinement of the most artistic and cultured of all 
races of which we have any knowledge, deserve 
prolonged study. Our visit will include such a 
study of the Theseion; the Kerameikos, with its 
marvelous and grave reliefs and its ancient forti- 
fications; the Stadion, recently rebuilt in its 
ancient splendor; the National Museum, the 
most significant of all collections of ancient art, 
and, above all, of the Acropolis, to which we 
shall go day by day and with deepening interest. 
There will be excursions to Salamis, Eleusis, the 
Grove of Daphne and other points of interest, 
either during the stay, or as we touch here on 
the return. 

June 28. Marathon. Embarking late on the 
preceding evening, the Athena slowly proceeds 
along the Attic Coast and around Cape Sunion, 
with its ancient harbor of refuge for the Athenian 
grain ships, and enters the sheltered waters be- 
tween Attica and Eubcea. We anchor off Mara- 
thon, where of old Hippias guided the Persian 
fleet in its attack upon Athens. The battlefield 
is perfectly seen from the deck of the. steamer, 

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The Ruins of Man's One Perfect Work 

marked by the still conspicuous tumulus erected 
over the remains of the Athenian soldiers who 
fell in the fight. There will be plenty of time to 
land for those who desire to do so. 

Steaming along up the coast, we pass the 
narrow Euripus, where island and mainland 
almost join, and cast anchor in the harbor of 
Chalkis. 

June 29. Platea. The early morning train 
by the best railroad in Greece takes us to Thebes 
and within easy reach of the battlefield of Platea, 
where the Greeks settled their final score with 
the Persians. The whole region is eloquent of 
some of the most important events in Greek 
history. At night we return to the Athena. 

June 30. Thermopylae. Still skirting the 
coast northward, we come as near as the broad- 
ening shallows will permit to the narrow pass 
between mountain and sea, where, of old, the 
inscription proudly told that Leonidas and 
three hundred Spartans withstood three hundred 
myriads of men. Access is difficult from the sea 
on account of the shallowness of the water. 

July 1. Vale of Tempe. The drive through 
this exquisite vale will more nearly recall the 
scenery that we have learned to love at home 
than any other excursion in Greece. Its extreme 
naturalness to us is due to its unlikeness to any- 




The Pnyx: Town-Meeting Place, Athens 

thing else in Greece, which accounts for its 
ancient fame. 

July 2. Eleusis. Returning southward we 
again head for Athens. Some time in the day we 
approach the Piraeus, where, if not already visited 
before, we shall have time for an excursion in 
the late afternoon to Eleusis. The Athena an- 
chors in the harbor of Athens for the night and 
much of the following day. 

July 3. Salamis. Before leaving these 
waters a cruise through the Bay of Salamis will 
add a climax to the historical associations of the 
place. Think of one brief week which takes us 
to Marathon and Platea and Thermopylae and 
Salamis. In all the wars of this warring world, 
there are no other four names so memorable as 
those, no other battles fought against such odds, 
or with such prowess, or for such a stake. It 
was the supreme effort of the East to dominate 
the West, and had not the West at that moment 
shown its utmost reach of manhood, the effort 
would have been crowned with success. 

Leaving Salamis in the sunset light, we steam 
out into the JEgean and head for the stepping- 
stone between Europe and Asia. 

July 4. Delos. The tiniest of the Cyclades, 
nestled in the midst of the larger circle. Here 
was the fabled birthplace of Apollo, and here 




one of the most potent shrines of his worship. 
The island still shows perhaps the oldest- 
built sanctuary in Greece, and abundant remains 
of the magnificent shrine of later days. The visit 
will not fail to recall the moment when this tiny 
island served as a nucleus for the grouping of 
the scattered maritime cities of Greece into that 
league which formed the empire of Athens. 



ASIA 

July 5. The Troad. A night's journey from 
Delos brings us in sight of low-lying Tenedos, 
behind which the Greek ships lay in hiding when 
the wooden horse was drawn into Troy. The 
mounds of Troy are dimly visible as we pass, and 
the tomb of Achilles rises conspicuously along 
the water's edge as we round into the Hellespont. 

July 6-7. Constantinople. With favoring 
conditions, we approach by early morning light 
the wonderful line of minarets which crowns 
the curving crest of Stamboul. There is no city 
on earth like Constantinople. Built to protect 
the empire of Rome against the limitless bar- 
barian hosts of the East, it performed its work 
for a thousand years, and is to-day, as it was 
then, the most strategic city in the world. Its 
museum is one of the loveliest in Europe. Its 



Athens and the Acropolis 

mosques, with the incomparable Santa Sophia, 
are the most remarkable group of buildings 
created in a thousand years. Yet when all de- 
tails are ended, the crowning glory of Constanti- 
nople is the city itself as it is seen from the west- 
ern approach or from the Bosphorus beyond. 
Our stay terminates with the trip up the Bos- 
phorus to the broad entrance into the Black 
Sea, an excursion unequalled in the world for 
beauty in like space. 

July 8. The Hellespont. We return as we 
came, but with more of day-time for the long 
passage of the Hellespont. Here is Lampsacus, 
the ill-gotten perquisite of the faithless Themis- 
tocles. Here is Abydos with its memories of 
Hero and Leander, of Lord Byron, and of less 
romantic but more important feats. Here is 
^Egospotami, where Athens lost her last fleet and 
stolid Sparta snuffed out the light of Greece; 
then on into the broad JEgean, and into the 
starlit night. 

GREECE 

July 9. ^Egina. The morning should find us 
nearing again the coast of Attica, where another 
stop is made at the Piraeus for supplies and last 
glimpses and commissions, and then, some time 
in the afternoon, we cross the narrow waters to 




The Temple, /Egina 

yEgina. old-time rival and latervictimof Athenian 
prosperity. A short climb to the temple brings 
us to the most magnificent double view in Greece, 
— Athens and Salamis on the one side and the 
Peloponnesus and the waters of the Saronic Gulf 
on the other. The temple is of exceptional inter- 
est to the student. 

Embarking again toward sunset, we pass, by 
the fading light, the rock-hewn Corinthian canal 
with its ribbon of blue joining the eastern and 
the western gulfs. 

July 10. Delphi. Sunrise finds us anchored 
in the little harbor of Itea, where for a thousand 
years the pilgrims started on their toilsome 
excursion up the slopes of the Parnassus to the 
high-perched shrine of Delphi. This shrine, 
which ruled the destinies of men more perhaps 
than any other shrine that has ever existed, still 
shows abundant reminders of its greatness, 
though the four thousand statues, which even 
after a second plundering it could show within 
its narrow precincts, have vanished. Eating our 
lunch under the plane trees that owe their origin 
to Agamemnon, we return by the most beautiful 
route in Greece to the Athena before nightfall. 
Steaming through the most beautiful of gulfs 
at the most beautiful of moments, we pass into 
the night and the Western Sea. 

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Amphissa, near Delphi 

July 11. Olympia. Anchoring at the little 
harbor of Katakolon, we take a special train to 
Olympia, where, nestled amid gentle hills, lay 
another shrine, strangest of all the world's pil- 
grimage places, and headquarters for the ath- 
letics which, more than our own, were the 
character builders of the Grecian youth. Aside 
from the extensive ruins, the little place is the 
proud possessor of the Hermes of Praxiteles, 
the most precious statue in the world. 

Then we return to the Athena and embark 
for Italy. 

July 12. Corfu. Time will hardly permit us 
to stop here if we are to make the morning train 
at Brindisi, but there is little to stop for and much 
to see in passing. Not only is the island reputed 
the most beautiful in the world, but it has its 
historical associations, too, as the fateful origi- 
nator of the " saddest war in history," whose 
first battle was fought off her coast. 

July 13. Brindisi. The cruise terminates 
early next morning at Brindisi where we arrive 
in time for the morning trains to Naples, Rome 
and The North. 



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Ulysses' Ship at Corfu 



CONNECTIONS 



All the cruises of the Athena make compara- 
tively close connections with Atlantic sailings 
both to and from America. These are indicated 
in the following calendars. We are prepared to 
furnish tickets as desired. 

All cruises make connection with University 
Tours or with the European Summer School, 
either preceding or following. Tours may be 
arranged in indefinite variety, and covering 
every part of the world, in convenient connec- 
tion with these cruises. 



CALENDAR OF CRUISES, 1911 

The Athena cruises only in the Mediterranean. Convenient 
transatlantic connections are indicated in italics below, but 
these connections are not included in the price. 



Mar. 
Mar. 
Mar. 
Mar. 
Mar. 
Mar. 
Mar. 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
April 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 



Cruise 1. $470 

Naples (or Salerno) . 

Messina 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Segesta 

To Constantine .... 

Constantine 

To Biskra 

Biskra 

Biskra 

To Tunis 

Tunis 

Carthage 

Selinunte 

Girgenti 

Malta 

Syracuse 

Taormina 

Taormina 

Pass Calabria 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu 

Corinth 

Smyrna 

Ephesus 

Hellespont 

Constantinople 

Constantinople 

Pass The Troad 

Delos 

Knossos 

Mycenae, Tiryns. . . . 

^Egina, Piraeus 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Eleusis 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 

From New York 
March 8; in New 
York May 29. 



Cruise 2. $430 Cruise 3. $270 



Algiers 

To Constantine 
Constantine . . . 

To Biskra 

Biskra 

Biskra 

To Tunis 

Tunis 

Carthage 

Selinunte 

Girgenti 

Malta 

Syracuse 

Taormina 

Taormina 

Pass Calabria . . 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu .... 

Corinth 

Smyrna 

Ephesus 

Hellespont 

Constantinople 
Constantinople 
Pass The Troad 

Delos 

Knossos 

Mycenae, Tiryns 
Mgina, Piraeus . 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Eleusis 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu .... 

Brindisi 

From Boston 

March 18; 

New York 

May 29. 



Brindisi ' 

Pass Corfu .... 

Corinth. ...... 

Smyrna 

Ephesus 

Hellespont 

Constantinople 

Constantinople 

Pass The Troad 

Delos 

Knossos 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

^Egina, Piraeus . 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Eleusis 

Delphi 

Olympia. 

Pass Corfu .... 

Brindisi 

From New York 
March 29; in 
New York 
May 29. 



See Notes on page 3 1 . 
26 



CRUISES IN MAY 



April 
April 
April 
May- 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
Mav 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 



Cruise 4 

Brindisi. . . 
Pass Corfu 
Corinth . . . 
Smyrna . . . 
Ephesus. . . 
Hellespont. 
Constantinople 



$470 



$MH) 



Cruise 5. 

Brindisi. . 
Pass Corfu 
Corinth . . . 
Smyrna. . . 
Ephesus. . . 
Hellespont. 
Constantinople 



Constantinople Constantinople 



Pass The Troad . . 

;Egina 

Athens 

Athens . . , 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Mycenae, Tiryns. 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 

Cattaro 

Cattaro 

Ragusa 

Spalato 

Salona 

Abbazia 

Pola 



May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 



Pass The Troad 
/Egina 



Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu .... 

Brindisi 

Cattaro 

Cattaro 

Ragusa 

Spalato 

Salona 

Abbazia 

Pola 



Ravenna 

Venice 

The East Coast 

Brindisi 

Pass Calabria 

Taormina 

Cefalu 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Segesta 

Tunis 

Tunis 

Carthage 

Selinunte 

Girgenti 

Malta 

Syracuse 

Naples 

From Boston April 8, 
in Boston June 26. 



Ravenna . 
Venice. . 



Cruise 6. $210 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu .... 

Corinth 

Smyrna 

Ephesus 

Hellespont 

Constantinople 

Constantinople 

Pass The Troad 

^Egina 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu .... 

Brindisi 

From Boston 
April 8; in 
Boston Junes. 



From Boston 
April 8; in 
New York 
June 10. 



Cruise 7. $180 

Or including Dal- 
matia {from 
Brindisi, May 
18), $270. 

Venice 

The East Coast 

Brindisi 

Pass Calabria . . 

Taormina 

Cefalu 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Segesta 

Tunis 

Tunis 

Carthage 

Selinunte 

Girgenti 

Malta 

Syracuse 

Naples 

From New York 
May 10; in 
New York 
June iq. 



27 



CRUISES IN EARLY SUMMER 



May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
May 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
June 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 



Cruise 8. $570 

Brindisi 

Cattaro 

Cattaro 

Ragusa 

Spalato 

Salona 

Abbazia 

Pola 

Ravenna 

Venice 

East Coast. . 

Brindisi 

Pass Calabria 

Taormina. . . 

Cefalu 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Segesta 

Tunis 

Tunis 

Carthage .... 

Selinunte. . . . 

Girgenti 

Malta 

Syracuse 

Taormina. . . . 

Taormina. . . . 

Ionian Sea . . . 

Messenia 

Sparta 

Knossos 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

Epidauros 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Marathon 

Platea 

Thermopylae .... 

Vale of Tempe . . 

Eleusis 

Salamis 

Delos 

Pass The Troad . 

Constantinople . . 

Constantinople . . 

Hellespont 

iEgina 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 

From Boston 

April 20; in 
N. Y. July 27. 



Cruise 9. 
$420 



c 

June 


rui 

2X 


June 25 


June 26 


June 27 


June 28 


June 29 


June 30 


July 1 


July 2 


July 3 


July 4 


July 5 


July 6 


July 7 


July 8 


July 9 


July 10 


July 11 


July 12 


July 


13 



Naples . . . 

Palermo . . 

Palermo . . 

Segesta . . 

Tunis. ... 

Tunis. . . . 

Carthage . 

Selinunte . 

Girgenti . . 

Malta 

Syracuse. . 

Taormina . 

Taormina . 

Ionian Sea 

Messenia . 

Sparta . . . 

Knossus. . 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

Epidauros 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Marathon 

Platea 

Thermopylae. . . . 

Vale of Tempe . . 

Eleusis 

Salamis 

Delos 

Pass The Troad . 

Constantinople . . 

Constantinople . . 

Hellespont 

#Lgina 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 

From Boston 
May 20; in 
N. Y. July 27. 

28 



se 10. $200 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu .... 

Corinth 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Delos 

Pass the Troad . 
Constantinople 
Constantinople 

Hellespont 

iEgina 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu .... 

Brindisi 

From Boston June 
10; in New York 
July 27 



Cruise 11. $310 

Naples 

Taormina 

Ionian Sea 

Messenia 

Sparta 

Knossos 

Mycenae, Tiryns . 

Epidauros 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Marathon 

Platea 

Thermopylae 

Vale of Tempe . . . 

Eleusis 

Salamis 

Delos 

Pass the Troad . . 

Constantinople. . . 

Constantinople . . . 

Hellespont 

^Egina 

Delphi 

Olympia 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 

From New York 
May 27; in New 
York July 27. 



MIDSUMMER CRUISES 



July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
July 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Sept. 



Cruise 12. $475 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu 

Corinth 

^Egina 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

Epidauros 

Sparta 

Messenia 

Olvmpia 

Delphi 

Salamis 

Marathon 

Chalkis, Platea . 

Salonica 

Hellespont 

Constantinople. . 

Constantinople . . 

Constantinople. . 

Troy 

Mytilene 

Ephesus 

Pergamon 

Halicarnassus . . . 

Rhodes 

Knossos ........ 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Eleusis 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 

Pass Calabria. . . 

Taormina 

Syracuse 

Girgenti 

Selinunte 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Naples 

From New York 
June 24; in 
Boston Sept. is 



Cruise 14. $395 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu 

Corinth 

^Egina 

Mycenae, Tiryns 

Epidauros 

Sparta 

Messenia 

Olympia 

Delphi 

Salamis 

Marathon 

Chalkis, Platea . 

Salonica 

Hellespont 

Constantinople. . 
Constantinople. . 
Constantinople. . 

Troy 

Mytilene 

Ephesus 

Pergamon 

Halicarnassus . . . 

Rhodes 

Knossos 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Eleusis 

Pass Corfu 

Brindisi 



From New York 
June 24; in 
Boston Sept. 8. 



$330 



Cruise 15. 

Brindisi .... 

Pass Corfu 

Corinth 

/Egina 

Mycenae, Tiryns . 

Epidauros 

Sparta 

Messenia 

Olympia 

Delphi 

Salamis 

Marathon 

Chalkis, Platea . . 

Salonica 

Hellespont 

Constantinople. . . 
Constantinople . . . 
Constantinople . . . 

Troy 

Mytilene 

Ephesus 

Pergamon 

Halicarnassus .... 

Rhodes 

Knossos 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Corfu 

Brindisi 



From New York 
June 24; in New 
York Aug. 30. 



29 



CRUISES IN LATE SUMMER 



Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 



Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Aug. 
Sept. 
Sept. 



Cruise 16 
$100 

Brindisi .... 
Pass Corfu . 

Olympia 

Corinth .... 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Mycenae .... 

Delphi 

Pass Corfu . 
Brindisi .... 



From Boston 
July 22; in 
New York 
Sept. 2. 



Cruise 18 
$150 



Brindisi 

Pass Corfu . . 

Olympia. . . . 

Delphi 

Mycenae .... 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Corfu 

Brindisi 

Pass Calabria 

Taormina . . . 

Syracuse .... 

Girgenti 

Selinunte .... 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Naples 

From Boston 
July 22; in 
Boston Sept. 
14. 



Cruise 17 
$100 



Brindisi 

Pass Corfu 

Olympia 

Delphi 

Mycenae 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Corfu 

Brindisi 

From Boston 
July 22; in 
Boston Sept. 7. 



Cruise 19 
$200 

Brindisi 

Pass Corfu .... 

Olympia 

Corinth 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

Athens 

The Hellespont 

Constantinople 

Constantinople 

Constantinople 

Piraeus 

Athens 

Corfu 

Brindisi 

Pass Calabria. . 

Taormina 

Syracuse 

Girgenti 

Selinunte 

Palermo 

Palermo 

Naples 

From Boston 
July 22; in 
Boston Sept. 
14. 



Cruise 20 is the Cruise to Mission 
stations of the Levant, connecting at 
Beyrout with Autumn Tour in Pales- 
tine and Egypt. We offer also an ex- 
tension eastward round the world, leav- 
ing Cairo for India Nov. 22. 



Sept 


23 


Sept 


24 


Sept 


25 


?n 


-30 
1 


Oct. 


Oct. 


2 


Oct. 


3 


Oct. 


4 


Oct. 


5 


Oct. 


6 


Oct. 


7 


Oct. 


8 


Oct. 





Oct. 


10 




II 


Oct. 


12 


Oct. 


13 


Oct. 


14 


(Jet. 


I.S 


Oct- 


16 


Oct. 


17 


Oct. 


18 


Oct. 


10 


Oct. 


20 


Oct. 


21 


Oct. 


22 


Oct. 


23 


Oct. 


24 


Oct. 


25 


Oct. 


26 


,,27- 


-2Q 


Oct. 


30 


Oct. 


31 


Nov. 


I 


Nov. 


2 


„ 3-6 


Nov. 


7 


Nov. 


8 


Nov. 





Nov. 


10 


Nov. 


II 


Nov. 


12 


Nov. 


13 


Nov. 


14 


Nov. 


15 


Nov. 


16 


Nov. 


17 


Nov. 


18 


Nov. 


IQ 


Nov. 


20 


Nov. 


21 


Nov. 


22 


Nov. 


23 


Nov. 


26 


Nov. 


27 



Cruise 20 

$550 

Brindisi 

(Corfu) 

Corinth 

Athens 

(Thermopylae) . . . 

Salonike 

Hellespont 

Constantinople. . . 

Roberts College . . 

Roumeli-Hissar . . 

Dardanelles 

Ephesus, Smyrna 

Rhodes 

Famagusta 

Mersina, Tarsus . 

Adana 

Beyrout 

Beyrout 

Lebanon 

Ba'albek 

Damascus 

Damascus 

Tiberias 

Capernaum 

Nazareth 

Jezreel 

Kabathia 

Samaria 

Nablous 

Huwara 

Jerusalem 

Jericho 

Dead Sea 

Jaffa 

Port Said, Cairo . 

Cairo 

Sakkara 

The Nile 

Benihasan 

The Nile 

Assiut 

The Nile 

Abydos 

Dendera 

Luxor 

Karnak 

Thebes.. 

Thebes 

Esna, Edfou 

Kom Ombo 

Assuan, Philse. . . . 

To Cairo 

Alexandria 

Messina 

Naples 

From New York 
Sept. 9; in Bos- 
ton Dec. 11. 



30 




The Basilica, Paestum 



NOTES 



Registration for any cruise requires a deposit of $50. 
(See numbered references in the calendar of cruises, pages 13 
to 17.) 

1 . Ravenna and Taormina have no protected harbor. The 
stop is dependent on favorable weather. 

2. Knossos is inaccessible if the north wind is blowing. In 
that case Epidauros will be substituted. 

3. ^gina will be omitted in stormy weather, with the pos- 
sible substitution of Marathon if the inside passage is taken to 
Constantinople. 

4. Selinunte. No harbor. In bad weather, it may be 
visited by rail from Mazara, or, if pressed for time, omitted. 

5. Names in parenthesis are of places where no stop is 
made, but which are seen to advantage in passing, the course 
of the steamer being specially directed to that end. 

6. Connections by transatlantic steamers from and to New 
York and Boston are indicated in italics at the end of each 
cruise, but the price mentioned does not include trans- 
atlantic passage. 



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